Today we bring you three stories about the high densities in cities and housing in height. Although the character is polemic however could not miss this video about their work, Bjarke Ingels and interview by Studio Banana TV.
In 2005, Bjarke Ingels opened his own office, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), after having co-founded PLOT Architects in 2001 and collaborated with Rem Koolhaas in OMA. Through a series of award-winning design projects and buildings, Bjarke Ingels has created an international reputation as a member of a new generation of architects that combines sagacious analysis, playful experimentation, social responsibility, and humor.

These projects include the House of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Ørestad and the new Danish National Maritime Museum in Elsinore, hotel projects in Norway, a skyscraper designed in the shape of Chinese character for the "people" of Shanghai, a master plan for reconstruction from an old naval base and industry páramo oil in a complex with zero entertainment emissions from the coastal city of Baku, Azerbaijan, in the form of the country's seven mountains, and a museum overlooking Mexico City . In the framework of BIG Bjarke Banner has recently published "Yes is more - an archcomic on architectural evolution".
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Bjarke Ingels (born in Copenhagen, in 1974) studied architecture at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and the School of Architecture of Barcelona, ​​obtaining his degree as an architect in 1998. He is the founder of the BIG architecture studio - (Bjarke Ingels Group), a studio founded in 2005, after co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 with his former partner Julien de Smedt, whom he met while working at the prestigious OMA studio in Rotterdam.

Bjarke has designed and completed award-winning buildings worldwide, and currently, his studio is based with venues in Copenhagen and New York. His projects include The Mountain, a residential complex in Copenhagen, and the innovative Danish Maritime Museum in Elsinore.

With the PLOT study, he won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2004, and with BIG he has received numerous awards such as the ULI Award for Excellence in 2009. Other prizes are the Culture Prize of the Crown Prince of Denmark in 2011; Along with his architectural practice, Bjarke has taught at Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University and Rice University and is an honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen.

In 2018, Bjarke received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Dannebrog granted by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II. He is a frequent public speaker and continues to give lectures at places such as TED, WIRED, AMCHAM, 10 Downing Street or the World Economic Forum. In 2018, Bjarke was appointed Chief Architectural Advisor by WeWork to advise and develop the design vision and language of the company for buildings, campuses and neighborhoods around the world.

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Published on: December 30, 2010
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